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Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists are not always close friends. But in the Chinese city of Wuchow, Dr. William L. Wallace, Baptist medical missionary and superintendent of Wuchow's Stout Memorial Hospital, was for 15 years on the best of terms with the Maryknoll priests and sisters whose malaria, skin ulcers and other illnesses he treated. Even during the war years, Dr. Wallace stayed in China and kept on with his work, which Maryknoll's Father Thomas Brack last week called "a vocation of sacrifice and love...
Under China's new conquerors, calm, lanky Dr. Wallace, a 42-year-old native of Knoxville, Tenn., continued his work in Wuchow despite the hindrance of the Chinese Communists. His popularity with the Chinese of the Wuchow area was his undoing; Communist propaganda about the wicked Americans could not stand up against his living example...
...tried to get him to sign a confession. They called a "denunciation meeting," but not one Chinese came forward to condemn him. The Reds then arrested six members of the hospital staff as "reactionary pro-Americans." None of them has been heard from since. Dr. Wallace was paraded through Wuchow and the surrounding countryside carrying a derisive placard, then returned to Wuchow jail when he appeared to be in a state of collapse...
...heart of the Stout Memorial Hospital, interesting himself in every patient, going untiringly from operating room to bedside in a never-ending round of charity . . . The only possible sentence the Communists could have passed on him was that he went about doing good. The Maryknoll Fathers of the Wuchow Diocese mourn the loss of Dr. Wallace, whose friendship they esteemed . . . He will be mourned by thousands of Chinese...
Scorched Airfields. In skillfully coordinated pincers drives the Japanese sent a powerful column from Canton up the West River. With their garrison divisions leavened by 20,000 freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...